Thursday, April 08, 2010

The Long Division Project: How Many Schoolchildren Can Fit Under One Retractable Roof?

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The retractable roof on BC Place stadium, which we have now established is being built, at least in part, to make a Las Vegas Casino operator happy, will cost we, the people of British Columbia, 458 million dollars at a minimum.

Now.....

The Vancouver School Board is currently 18 million dollars in deficit which may very well lead to the firing of hundreds of teachers and staff, the cancellation of music programs, the shortening of the school year, and the turning down of heat in classrooms.

Yes - you heard that right - no heat for kids sitting at their desks.

So.....using my long division skills that I have re-learned helping littler e. with her Grade 5 homework.....

458 million divided by 18 million = 25

Whic means that the money spent on that stupid roof could be used to halt the shortfalls that will do nothing but hurt our kids for twenty-five years straight.

Or, put another way, we could take the money being spent on that ridiculous roof and spread it around to every single school district in the province and improve their programs for the next 10 years.

At least.

OK?

.

29 comments:

Norm Farrell said...

Well RossK, Keith Baldrey and Global pulled out all the stops, investigating Casino Royale. On the Thursday News Hour, Baldrey spent 11 seconds on the subject, noting the NDP would probably bring it up in question period next week.

Just a few non-stories to give the opposition something to moan about.

RossK said...

Guess his water bucket is empty for the moment....I'm sure he'll have it re-filled for tomorrow's version of the Ledgie Boys....

Meanwhile the (nolongerso)Giant98, during it's 11pm Thursday newscast desribed Mr. Turner's company as being 'possibly linked' to the Casino project....Are these people even paying attention?

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DanielAjoy said...

Yeap. That is correct:

458 million divided by 18 million = 25

More practice here:

http://neoparaiso.com/imprimir/long-division-worksheets.html

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